General Operation Articles

Spray application by drone is here. It’s common practice in South East Asia, with a very significant proportion of ag areas now treated by drone. Estimates from South Korea, for example, suggest about 30% of their ag area being sprayed by drone. It’s in ...Read More

This week I spoke with Gerry Bell, a producer from near Gravelbourg in southern Saskatchewan (a beautiful town with a historic downtown, church and school, also, home of the Gravelbourger at the local diner). He told me about a project he recently completed, converting ...Read More

Site-specific treatments have long been a goal in agriculture. It makes sense to provide inputs or treatments at rates that reflect the local situation. And to a large degree, those capabilities have been available for fertility and seed inputs for some time, with input ...Read More

In the home farm’s west field,where the soybeans won’t grow,and the wind blows the soil from deep tillage you know,and no pollinators come, excepting old crowsis the patch of resistant pigweed. And downhill in the boundary, some neighbours say, if you look close enough ...Read More

In an earlier article we identified shortcomings in the content and design of today’s pesticide labels. From the perspective of the spray applicator, the information needed most often can be difficult to locate, anachronistic, contradictory, subjective or even missing from the label altogether. To truly encourage an applicator to read ...Read More